History / Background

Danielle's Light Show

Around Thanksgiving 2005, I received an email from my cousin with a video of this house with their lights "dancing" to the music. There was much debate as to whether this could actually be done - or was it someone taking pictures of their house with certain lights on or off and then superimposing it to the music. After some research – I found that it could, in fact, be done! The house belonged to a man named Carson and I discovered a wonderful group of people at a magical place called “Planet Christmas”.

The Christmas bug had bit me. And although there was no way I could get something like this together by Christmas 2005 – I set my sights on 2006. By March, I had most everything I needed, except a Grinch. (He followed shortly afterwards) I spent hours at the computer, getting the lights programmed to the songs, and made my children listen to Christmas music in the car. (Yes – that was me blaring Christmas songs in February!) A picture formed in my head of how I wanted everything to look. Christmas couldn’t come fast enough!

This past year was such a wonderful experience. Last year was so much fun to actually see my vision come to life. I appreciate all those who emailed and stopped by and voiced words of encouragement. It gave me the courage and energy to work through this past year and bring this show about again!

An extra special thank you to Paul at Animated Lighting for all your help!!!

My Thank-you list:

I would like to thank my husband for putting up with all this! His two biggest dislikes in this world are a)clutter in the garage and b)attracting attention. And he has been tripping over countless wireframes in need of lighting, ones already lit, tomato cages anxiously awaiting their transformation into Christmas Trees, and boxes and boxes and boxes of lights - for an entire year! Only to have me out there turning our front yard into Vegas does Christmas - which gets the clutter out of the garage, BUT...

I would also like to thank my children, who have had to listen to Christmas music in January, February, March, April... (you get the idea) And not a wide variety of it, either! The same song, over and over and over again. And yet - they are excited to hear it all again!

I would like to thank everyone at Planet Christmas. You folks are a great group of people – very encouraging towards us “newbies”, answering our millions of questions and sharing your knowledge and ideas!

To my friends who encourage and believe in me – no matter what hairbrained idea I come up with. And an extra big special thanks to Linda who gave me “A Winters Tale”.

And last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank my Savior, Jesus Christ! Without Him, I would be nothing.